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And finished off the workout with :30 minutes of core strengthening exercises on the yoga ball and floor (planks, walk out planks etc.

And here's my EXCITING NEWS! For the very first time in 5 YEARS, I JUMPED up from a squatting position, over a plank and onto the other side. This is groundbreaking for me as I have a severely herniated disc that has just started to heal since going primal. And I believe it's finally healing because I have reduced inflammation of the body through restricting wheat, oils, genetically modified foods and sugar.

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Todays workout:
4 sets of incline press
2 sets of flat bench
about an hour of walking
I'm a bit of a gym rat, I lift 5 days a week-- but I keep my workouts to about 20-25 minutes and focus on compound lifts (squats, deadlifts, presses).

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Started with push ups and pull ups off a wooden beam - 20 push ups followed by 5 pull ups, which lowered to 3 pull ups per 20 until I couldn't do any more. Didn't count the sets. Prooooooobably should have.
Then I decided to make use of my environment and do a custom weight workout for muscles that could be applied practically. Filled a couple of bags with wood and worked my shoulders, lifting them up to the side of my head for 5 sets of 10. Ouch. Then did some custom deadlifts with the wood chopping block - basically by lifting it up, holding, then lowering. Again: ouch. Then I managed to find a wooden bar. Not sure what it was doing there, but hey, there it was. So I attached the two bags previously used to either side, added a bit more wood per bag and performed 5 sets of 10 squats. OOOOOOOUCH.

This was followed by a hasty stumble upstairs and the downing of a weakly made Paleo-protein shake (doing Whole30 this month - no Whey allowed, and had short time) of two egg whites, a banana and some strawberries. This was followed quickl by a big ass meal of portobello steak mushroom burgers and a whopping bowl of sweet potato fries - using the leftover yolk as an oil.

Wow. Gotta say, right now, body is aching. Gonna feel that tommorow. But at the same time... Damn, I feel awesome.

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Finally have a new workout routine after moving and losing my city. 15 minute bike ride on hills to a gated community playground, arm work and push-ups, ride back. It sounds so simple, but it's awesome and very taxing. Takes about 45 minutes. I'm not going to try categorizing it. It's my exercise. I can control the intensity easily. I'm going to do it every other day on my days off weather/family/other BS permitting.

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And here's my EXCITING NEWS! For the very first time in 5 YEARS, I JUMPED up from a squatting position, over a plank and onto the other side. This is groundbreaking for me as I have a severely herniated disc that has just started to heal since going primal. And I believe it's finally healing because I have reduced inflammation of the body through restricting wheat, oils, genetically modified foods and sugar.

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Squat 80kg 3x5
Bench 60kg 3x5
Deadlift 120kg 1x2. Was going for 1x5 but it was too heavy. I did 115kgx5 last time, and probably should've gone to 117.5 instead of 115, but I've been doing 5kg increments so far. Oh well.
Chinups: 6,6,4 - half a year ago I couldn't do one without aid